2/19/2023 0 Comments Cast of the movie seventh son![]() ![]() You have to muster up the courage to kill your prisoners a wrong move or the slightest hesitation can get you incinerated, as happened to Gregory’s last apprentice. (Or, as Gregory puts it, a “sheventh shaun of a sheventh shaun.”) Being an apprentice isn’t easy, either. Not just anyone can be an apprentice, mind it must be a seventh son of a seventh son. Gregory enlists restless, Skywalker-y village kid Tom (Ben Barnes) as his apprentice. As Gregory, a former knight and witch-hunter who wanders the countryside fighting and exorcising demons of all stripes, Jeff Bridges is pure growly silliness, giving a performance that is somehow both debased and yet above it all. A strange movie that manages to be both ridiculous and bland, its chief point of interest is the spectacle of a great actor caught in career decline. Has it really been more than three decades since Ladyhawke and Dragonslayer? Was it just a more innocent time back then?Įven so, Seventh Son doesn’t appear to have had much of a chance. Tolkien (and even then, sometimes it’s hard). With its overt appeals to such childlike (or childish, depending on your point of view) things like dragons and witches and spells, maybe it’s just hard to take this stuff at face value anymore, unless it was written by J.R.R. Why is it so hard to make a satisfying medieval fantasy adventure? We look down on movies like Seventh Son, Season of the Witch, Outcast, and any number of other films for their descent into high camp, but sometimes, one wonders if it’s the genre. Photo: Warner Bros and Legendary Pictures Ben Barnes, left, and Jeff Bridges in The Seventh Son.
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